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Miguel Amorós: What is anarchism?
From a las barricadas (02/09/2024). We share Miguel Amorós’ essay, “What is Anarchism?”, not because we are entirely in agreement with it – that has never been an exclusive criterion of selection for us -, but because of the forcefulness … Continue reading
Not just sex: Talking about Alex Comfort with Eric Laursen
From Freedom News (30/08/2024). When I discovered the Freedom Press collection of Alex Comfort’s anarchist and anti-militarist writings, I’d already known him for 15 years as the author of The Joy of Sex. This pioneering couples’ manual, which featured ‘aesthetic’/’tasteful’ illustrations … Continue reading
Colin Ward and Martin Buber: Society and the State
We return to Colin Ward through the work of Martin Buber, in parallel essays addressing the nature of and the relation between the State and Society. For both authors, the relation between the two – in Buber’s terms, the relation … Continue reading
Colin Ward: Anarchism as anarchy
The important question is … not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society. Colin Ward, … Continue reading
Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024
From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading
Amedeo Bertolo: An apology for anarchism
In a 1983 article for Volontà that we share below, Amedeo Bertolo endeavoured to critically diagnose the anarchist movement of his time in a remarkably direct and lucid manner; a diagnoses which we may help us to see through our … Continue reading
For James Baldwin: “Telling it like it is”
If the hope of givingis to love the living,the giver risks madnessin the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to seein the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,what gift would give them the gift to … Continue reading
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The Rat: A Russian anarchist’s story of torture, imprisonment, and compassion
From Freedom News (24/07/2024). Ilya Shakursky was condemned to 16 years on trumped-up terrorism charges Franz Kafka’s The Trial opens with the line, “Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, … Continue reading
For James C. Scott (1936-2024)
… state-ness is not a binary, where something is a state or not a state, but it’s a continuum. So, things that are more a state or less a state. […] My argument would be that when the state has … Continue reading
Done and to be done: For a manifesto of positive anarchy
From Lundi Matin, #443 (16/09/2024), we share a text by Maria Kakogianni – a manifesto of anarchy -, which by coincidence comes in the wake of our last post, the article by Miguel Amorós, “What is anarchism?”. The contrast between … Continue reading →